Hoi, You do not discover about a language when in the process you change it beyond recognition. The correct word for such an endeavour is called reconstruction. When we tell people we have a Wikipedia in a language and people turn to it in order to learn that language, we do them a disservice. This is quit against what the Wikimedia Foundation stands for because in this way we do not provide valid information. Thanks, GerardM
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
Gerard,
Your point is well taken. But I am not talking about "innovating" the language, but creating a project to discover more about it.
Marc
on 4/2/08 1:43 PM, Gerard Meijssen at gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Marc, Exactly in a dead language you do NOT want innovation because as a consequence it is no longer that language. Thanks, GerardM
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86@comcast.net
wrote:
I wouldn't dedicated too much effort to the Old English Wikipedia if
I
were you. Who's going to read it? You're just producing learning
aids
for people learning the language, you're not really creating an encyclopaedia.
So much for creativity and innovation, Thomas :-(. A person is
usually
advised not to attempt something because of possible negative effects
and/or
outcome. Is that the case here? I think not.
on 4/2/08 1:11 PM, Thomas Dalton at thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
The negative effects are the loss of his time. That's only really a negative effect for him, <snip>
How many innovators have been cautioned not to waste their time on something? I would think that would be for him to be concerned about.
Sounds like a worthwhile project to me.
What will it achieve? In particular, how will it further out goal to provide the sum of human knowledge to people?
Thomas, you speak of "sum" as though it were finite. It's about
discovery,
perhaps the greatest of purposes.
Marc
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